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Enrollment
560
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585000302
DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE
106 APPENHEIMER ST, BUFFALO, NY 14214 · (716) 816-4110 · Erie County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL560 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 0% of New York public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
537 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 54 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 46 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 60 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 15% smaller than its 8th grade class (60).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
13.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
9.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 13 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 13.0% | 9.0% |
| 2023-24 | 9.0% | 9.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
9.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-30.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 9% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE
DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE's state test result (9.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE this school | 560 | 95.9% | 9.4% |
| COMMUNITY SCHOOL #53 BUFFALO | 464 | 97.4% | 12.5% |
| STANLEY MAKOWSKI EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER BUFFALO | 566 | 94.7% | 25.5% |
| BUFFALO UNITED CHARTER SCHOOL BUFFALO | 465 | 93.3% | 27.8% |
| PS 276 LOUIS MARSHALL BROOKLYN | 560 | 88.2% | 58.9% |
| PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY BUFFALO | 396 | 96.5% | 18.7% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 9.4% | #2,325 of 2,335 | #115 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.0% | #2,330 of 2,342 ▼ 3 | #113 of 115 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.0% | #2,320 of 2,343 ▲ 3 | #108 of 115 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 560 | #600 of 2,585 | #37 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #849 of 2,338 | #57 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.4% | #1,263 of 2,388 | #57 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.9% | #155 of 2,534 | #11 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.2% | #844 of 1,757 | #29 of 68 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
560
-11 (-2%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 591
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 11.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 560 | 50.8 | 11.0:1 | 96% (537) |
| 2023-24 | 569 | 56.1 | 10.2:1 | 93% (530) |
| 2022-23 | 580 | 51.8 | 11.2:1 | 93% (539) |
| 2020-21 | 571 | 49 | 11.7:1 | 89% (507) |
| 2017-18 | 660 | 48 | 13.8:1 | 77% (511) |
| 2015-16 | 770 | 46 | 16.7:1 | 73% (561) |
| 2010-11 | 859 | 59 | 14.6:1 | 87% (749) |
| 2000-01 | 538 | 45 | 12.0:1 | 77% (415) |
| 1990-91 | 591 | 43 | 13.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE.
About DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE
Families in BUFFALO, New York, are served by DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE, a medium-sized elementary school. Classes run from pre-K through 8, and the school has 560 students. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students, so this school is 26% larger than average.
DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE sits within BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 61 schools and 29,425 students.
Black students are the majority at DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE, with 69% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 12% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 6% White, and 4% multiracial. The school's Black share is 57 points above the 13% share among Erie County residents. DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE's diversity index is 49%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school employs the equivalent of 50.8 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 11.0:1. That is lower than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 96%. For comparison, public schools in Erie County average 51%.
DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE is graded F by allk12, scoring above 0% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE ranks in the bottom 10% of New York schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 9.4%. Predicted: 39.7%. Difference: 30.3 points.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Erie County show that the median household income is $72,839, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE is one of 226 public schools in the county.
The nearest other public school, MATH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT 197, is about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE is 7th of 7 nearby schools with test data.
In the federal locale system, DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE had 571 students in 2020-21 and 560 in 2024-25, nearly the same.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Erie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
950,622
Census ACS
Median income
$72,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
226
122,519 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HUTCHINSON CENTRAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,140 students
- CITY HONORS SCHOOLHigh · 1,088 students
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
- FREDERICK OLMSTED #156High · 928 students
- MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 862 students
- SOUTH PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 801 students
Other schools in BUFFALO
- CHARTER SCHOOL FOR APPLIED TECHNOLOGIESCombined · 2,260 students
- KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,235 students
- HUTCHINSON CENTRAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,140 students
- TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 1,120 students
- CITY HONORS SCHOOLHigh · 1,088 students
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
Nearby schools
- MATH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT 1970.2 mi · 438
- PS 840.2 mi · 151
- BURGARD HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 502
- ERIE COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY0.6 mi · 13
- PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION0.7 mi · 315
- PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY0.7 mi · 396
Frequently asked questions
About DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCEHow large is DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE?
DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE enrolls approximately 560 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE serve?
DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many teachers does DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE have?
DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE?
At DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE, the student body is approximately 6% White, 8% Hispanic, 69% Black, 12% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE public or private?
DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE is a public K-12 school, overseen by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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